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Check Your Eclipse Glasses Before Monday

A lot of the eclipse glasses selling on Amazon right now aren't actually safe. Here's the quick ISO check to run before Monday.

April 6, 2024·3 min read

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Reddit Went Public and I'm Still Mad About Apollo

Reddit and Trump Media both went public the same week, and only one of them makes any financial sense. A longtime Reddit user's take, with a detour through the death of Apollo.

March 27, 2024·3 min read

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Reddit Priced Its IPO Tonight and I'm Still Thinking About Apollo

Reddit priced its IPO at $34 a share tonight, and instead of feeling excited about it I mostly just kept thinking about Apollo.

March 20, 2024·3 min read

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Apple Banned Epic, Then Un-Banned Them, All Before the Weekend

Apple banned Epic's EU developer account, then un-banned it 48 hours later once Spotify and Brussels started paying attention. A quick look at what that says about Apple's DMA compliance.

March 12, 2024·3 min read

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Why Some Vision Pro Buyers Are Already Boxing It Back Up

A wave of early Vision Pro buyers are quietly returning the $3,499 headset within Apple's 14-day window, and the reasons why say more about strapping a computer to your face than about Apple's execution.

March 6, 2024·4 min read

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Reddit Is Selling Fourteen Years of My Comments to Google

Reddit's IPO filing revealed a $60 million a year data deal with Google, which means fourteen years of my old comments just became someone else's training data.

March 4, 2024·3 min read

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Six Minutes of Silence on the Moon

A vending-machine-sized lander from a Houston startup touched down on the moon Thursday night, and the six minutes of dead silence before anyone knew it survived was more tense than it had any right to be.

February 24, 2024·3 min read

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Reddit Filed Its S-1 and Now Wants to Sell Shares to Its Own Mods

Reddit finally filed its S-1 this week, and the weirdest part isnt the numbers, its the plan to let regular users and mods buy in before the stock even opens.

February 23, 2024·3 min read

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A Weekend With Someone Else's Vision Pro

A weekend borrowing a friend's Apple Vision Pro during the first big wave of return-window stories, and what actually made me hesitate wasn't the price.

February 17, 2024·4 min read

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Day Fourteen: The Vision Pro Return Window Closes Today

Today's the 14-day return deadline for Vision Pro launch-day buyers, and the "Vision Pro face" red-mark photos going around this week explain a lot about why lines are forming to send them back.

February 16, 2024·3 min read

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The Morning My Timeline Turned Into a Film Festival

OpenAI dropped Sora this morning and my whole timeline turned into a film festival, but the thing that stuck with me was smaller and weirder than the demo reel.

February 15, 2024·4 min read

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25 Minutes With Vision Pro (And a Lot of Other Peoples Returns)

I finally did the guided Vision Pro demo at the Apple Store this week, and I've got thoughts on the display, the weight, the return-window chatter, and Google renaming Bard to Gemini the same week.

February 9, 2024·4 min read